Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The collection of data in these studies is part of a larger study on the decline of the Scottish cotton industry. The primary aim of the project was to answer questions regarding the causality and chronology of decline in the cotton industry. Since economic historians have viewed the decline of the Scottish cotton industry as a consequence of poor productivity it was decided to explore the relationship between capital and labour and in particular, the gender structure of the cotton mill.

To examine links between household and workplace. To establish the home backgrounds of females in spinning and weaving as a means of : establishing their respective status; establishing links between fathers in skilled occupations and propensity to strike among women in the cotton industry.

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This dataset contains three files, one for each census. It was derived from the dataset of census information on Paisley and Bridgeton by extracting records of heads of households from the original dataset and adding a number of derived fields which condensed household information to one record per household. Additional fields contain information on: total number in household; total number occupied; total working in textiles; total working in cotton; total number these occupied in other industries; number working in textiles related to each other; total number of boarders; total number of boarders working in textiles.

One-stage stratified or systematic random sample

households from streets chosen because they were known as places where cotton dwellers were known to dwell in large numbers. All households in each street which contained at least one cotton worker were included in the sample.

Compilation or synthesis of existing material